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Memoirs of a geisha : a novel / Arthur Golden.
An epic drama about the remote and shimmeringly exotic world of Sayuri, one of Japan's most celebrated geisha - a woman who is both performer and courtesan, slave and goddess. We follow Sayuri from her childhood in an impoverished fishing village, where in 1929, she is sold to a representative of a geisha house, who is drawn by the child's unusual blue-grey eyes. From there she is taken to Gion, the pleasure district of Kyoto. She is nine years old. In the years that follow, as she works to pay back the price of her purchase, Sayuri will be schooled in music and dance, learn to apply the geisha's elaborate makeup, wear elaborate kimono, and care for a coiffure so fragile that it requires a special pillow. She will also acquire a magnanimous tutor and a venomous rival. Surviving the intrigues of her trade and the upheavals of war, the resourceful Sayuri is a romantic heroine on the order of Jane Eyre and Scarlett O'Hara.
Record details
- ISBN: 067697175X (paperback)
- ISBN: 9780676971750 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 434 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition: First Vintage Canada edition.
- Publisher: Toronto : Vintage Canada, 1999, 1997.
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| Subject: | Geishas > Japan > Fiction. Japan > History > 20th century > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Autobiographical fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Radium Hot Springs Public Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Radium Hot Springs Public Library | FIC GOL (Text) | 35130000059646 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
